Jane Hamilton

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

Jane Hamilton, award-winning author ofThe Book of RuthandA Map of the World, is back in top form with a richly textured novel about a tragic accident and its effects on two generations of a family. When Aaron Maciver’s beautiful young wife, Madeline, suffers brain damage in a bike accident, she is left with the intellectual powers of a six-year-old. In the years that follow, Aaron and his second wife care for Madeline with deep tenderness and devotion as they raise two children of their own. Narrated by Aaron's son, Mac,When Madeline Was Youngchronicles the Maciver family through the decades, from Mac’s childhood growing up with Madeline and his cousin Buddy in Wisconsin through the Vietnam War, through Mac’s years as a husband with children of his own, and through Buddy’s involvement with the subsequent Gulf Wars. Jane Hamilton, with her usual humor and keen observations of human relationships, deftly explores the Maciver's unusual situation and examines notions of childhood (through Mac and Buddy’s actual youth as well as Madeline’s infantilization) and a rivalry between Buddy’s and Mac’s families that spans decades and various wars. She captures the pleasures and frustrations of marriage and family, and she exposes the role that past relationships, rivalries, and regrets inevitably play in the lives of adults. Inspired in part by Elizabeth Spencer’sLight in the Piazza, Hamilton offers an honest and exquisite portrait of how a family tragedy forever shapes and alters the boundaries of love.

When Madeline Was Young

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Mindy Friddle

S243, c2009, Some adhesive on front dust jacket 

At age seventy-two, Emma Hanley plans to escape small-town Palmetto, South Carolina, and travel the globe. But when her fickle husband dies in undignified circumstances, Emma finds herself juggling the needs of her adult children. Her once free-spirited daughter Dora turns to compulsive shopping and a controlling husband to forget her wayward past. Her son Bobby still lives with her, afflicted with an illness that robbed him of his childhood promise. When Dora’s old flame Jake Cary returns to Palmetto with a broken heart and a gift for gardening, the town becomes filled with mysterious, potent botanicals and memories long forgotten. Soon enough, Jake and his ragtag group of helpers begin to unearth the secrets that have divided the Hanleys for decades. Written with the warmth of Lee Smith and the magical touch of Alice Hoffman, Secret Keepers is a beguiling second novel by the acclaimed author of The Garden Angel.

Secret Keepers

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Laurence Leamer

Love and Death Behind the Gates of Palm Beach

The New York Times bestselling history of the glamour and debauchery of the ultra-wealthy Palm Beach community--from The Breakers to Trump's Mar-a-Lago.

For more than a hundred years, Palm Beach has been an exclusive and exotic universe of wealth and privilege in America. And until Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme devastated its eternally sunny world, the reality of this affluent enclave has rarely been exposed to outsiders.

Now, in Madness Under the Royal Palms, resident insider Laurence Leamer reveals the secrets and scandals of this South Florida island via a cast of characters that includes social climbers, trophy wives, sugar daddies, glamorous widows and their "escorts," sociopathic multimillionaires, and elegant society queens. Dive into the unbelievable true story of love, lust, money, and murder in a uniquely American paradise.

Madness under the Royal Palms

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Erin Lindsay McCabe

I Shall Be near to You

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Dave Eggers

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Hired to work for the world's most powerful Internet company, Mae Holland questions her luck as life beyond her job grows distant, an encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, and her role at the company becomes increasingly public.

The Circle

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Robin LaFevers

His Fair Assassin (Book III)

Annith's worst fears are realized when she discovers that, despite her lifelong training to be an assassin, she is being groomed by the abbess as a Seeress, to be forever shut up in the convent of Saint Mortain.

Mortal Heart

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Martin Limón

"The New York Times Book Review hailed the return of George Sueo and his partner, Ernie Bascom, in Martin Lim3/4n's electrifying thriller "Slicky Boys, proclaiming, "It's great to have these two mavericks back!" Now the pair of investigators for the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigation Division (CID) is once again walking the wild side of Seoul. In their most explosive case yet, the soldier-cops pursue the key to an ancient source of power and untold wealth--a dangerous odyssey into an exotic shadow world of sensuality, treachery, and evil. Sueo and Bascom work the neon alleys of Itaewon--Seoul's supermarket of cheap thrills, where brightly painted girls promise a little piece of paradise in exchange for a few pieces of silver. But in Itaewon, the path to paradise can take some wicked turns.... Herman "the German" Burkowicz retired from the U.S. Army for a more lucrative career smuggling Korean artifacts. But the price of one such rarity may be paid by his kidnapped nine-year-old foster daughter, Mi-ja. Sueo and Bascom advise him to pay the ransom: a priceless skull carved out of jade. The problem is, Herman doesn't have the skull...and Mi-ja's abductors are in no mood to wait. They've already sent a grisly sign of their growing impatience. Working feverishly in a race against time, the two CID investigators discover that the coveted skull is much more than a hunk of jade: It's a long-lost relic of Genghis Khan. But more crucially, it's the key to the destiny of the entire Pacific Rim, from Beijing to Bangkok. The search for the skull takes Sueo and Bascom from the seductive lair of Lady Ahn--heir, she claims, to the Dragon Throne of China and therefore the rightful owner ofthe jade skull--to the sinister inner sanctum of the Buddhist cult of Mahakala, Lord of the Demons. The labyrinth of intrigue and deception leads back to Itaewon and to a crime committed by an American soldier against a Buddhist nun--a crime that now threatens to ignite a conflagration of rage across the Korean peninsula. Monsoon season has arrived in Seoul, and for Sueo and Bascom, the storm is about to explode. Gritty, intense, and compelling, "Buddha's Money is a shattering thriller, leading readers on a trail of lies and double-crossings as dark and twisting as an Itaewon back alley.

Buddha's Money

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Adrian R. Lewis

S243, c2001, Some wear on dust jacket edges.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A Flawed Victory

The Allied victory at Omaha Beach was a costly one. A direct infantry assault against a defense that was years in the making, undertaken in daylight following a mere thirty-minute bombardment, the attack had neither the advantage of tactical surprise nor that of overwhelming firepower. American forces were forced to improvise under enemy fire, and although they were ultimately victorious, they suffered devastating casualties.



Why did the Allies embark on an attack with so many disadvantages? Making extensive use of primary sources, Adrian Lewis traces the development of the doctrine behind the plan for the invasion of Normandy to explain why the battles for the beaches were fought as they were.



Although blame for the Omaha Beach disaster has traditionally been placed on tactical leaders at the battle site, Lewis argues that the real responsibility lay at the higher levels of operations and strategy planning. Ignoring lessons learned in the Mediterranean and Pacific theaters, British and American military leaders employed a hybrid doctrine of amphibious warfare at Normandy, one that failed to maximize the advantages of either British or U.S. doctrine. Had Allied forces at the other landing sites faced German forces of the quality and quantity of those at Omaha Beach, Lewis says, they too would have suffered heavy casualties and faced the prospect of defeat.







Omaha Beach

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Günter Grass

Michael Henry Heim

S243, c2006 (current copy is the English translation, c2007)

A Memoir

In this extraordinary memoir, Nobel Prize-winning author Gunter Grass remembers his early life, from his boyhood in a cramped two-room apartment in Danzig through the late 1950s, whenThe Tin Drumwas published.During the Second World War, Grass volunteered for the submarine corps at the age of fifteen but was rejected; two years later, in 1944, he was instead drafted into the Waffen-SS. Taken prisoner by American forces as he was recovering from shrapnel wounds, he spent the final weeks of the war in an American POW camp. After the war, Grass resolved to become an artist and moved with his first wife to Paris, where he began to write the novel that would make him famous.Full of the bravado of youth, the rubble of postwar Germany, the thrill of wild love affairs, and the exhilaration of Paris in the early fifties,Peeling the Onion--which caused great controversy when it was published in Germany--reveals Grass at his most intimate.

Peeling the Onion

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Paul Theroux

A former American consul joins the disparate members of a group of London terrorists in their murderous activities throughout the city.

The Family Arsenal

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Basil H. Johnston

The Spiritual World of the Ojibway

A collection of sacred stories comprises the spiritual teachings and perceptions of the Ojibway people and addresses the living essences that infuse and safeguard every plant and animal.

The Manitous

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David Baldacci

In "The Camel Club", bestselling author David Baldacci paints a frighteningly vivid portrait of a world that could be our very own soon, and the few people who have a chance to stop the chaos...

The Camel Club

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Mary S. Lovell

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton

Describes the accomplishments of the British explorer and scholar, and the relationship between him and his unconventional wife.

A Rage to Live

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David Traxel

The United States in Peace and the Great War, 1898-1920

Chronicles the first two decades of the twentieth century, examining such important events as the crusade to end child labor, the battle for women's votes, prohibition, the impact of vast immigration on American life, and the Great War.

Crusader Nation

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Robert Timberg

S242, c1996, Pages browning at edges, price discounted (see photo)

Robert Timberg weaves together the lives of Annapolis graduates John McCain, James Webb, Oliver North, Robert McFarlane, and John Poindexter to reveal how the Vietnam War continues to haunt America. Casting all five men as metaphors for a legion of well-meaning if ill-starred warriors, Timberg probes the fault line between those who fought the war and those who used money, wit, and connections to avoid battle. A riveting tale that illuminates the flip side of the fabled Vietnam generation -- those who went.

The Nightingale's Song

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Thomas J. Schlereth

Transformations in Everyday Life, 1876-1915

Victorian America

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Barry Parker

Remarkable Discoveries That Shaped Modern Science

Acclaimed science writer Parker completes his trilogy on Einstein with this new work which introduces a wealth of new material and shows the incredibly wide-ranging influence of Einstein's many discoveries.

Albert Einstein's Vision

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Jade Lady Burning

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Anna Quindlen

After her passionate marriage deteriorates into a violent nightmare, Fran Benedetto is forced to start a new life, complete with a new identity

Black and Blue

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David O. Stewart

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The Political Rise of America's Founding Father

A fascinating and illuminating account of how George Washington became the dominant force in the creation of the United States of America, from award-winning author David O. Stewart “An outstanding biography . . . [George Washington] has a narrative drive such a life deserves.”—The Wall Street Journal Washington's rise constitutes one of the greatest self-reinventions in history. In his mid-twenties, this third son of a modest Virginia planter had ruined his own military career thanks to an outrageous ego. But by his mid-forties, that headstrong, unwise young man had evolved into an unassailable leader chosen as the commander in chief of the fledgling Continental Army. By his mid-fifties, he was unanimously elected the nation's first president. How did Washington emerge from the wilderness to become the central founder of the United States of America? In this remarkable new portrait, award-winning historian David O. Stewart unveils the political education that made Washington a master politician—and America's most essential leader. From Virginia's House of Burgesses, where Washington mastered the craft and timing of a practicing politician, to his management of local government as a justice of the Fairfax County Court to his eventual role in the Second Continental Congress and his grueling generalship in the American Revolution, Washington perfected the art of governing and service, earned trust, and built bridges. The lessons in leadership he absorbed along the way would be invaluable during the early years of the republic as he fought to unify the new nation.

George Washington

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John Grisham

A Novel

Convicted of the murder of a young mother in a 1970 trial that ended with his threat to seek revenge against the jurors, Danny Padgitt is paroled after nine years in prison and returns to the scene of the trial in Ford County, Mississippi.

The Last Juror

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S243, c2000, Dust jacket shows wear at edges

The Brethren

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Phillip Knightley

S243, c1975, Some spots on sides of book (see photos) but inside pages clean

From the Crimea to Vietnam: The War Correspondent As Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker

The First Casualty

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Christopher Castellani

It's been fifty years since Antonio Grasso married Maddalena and brought her to America. That was the last time she saw her parents, her sisters and brothers--everything she knew and loved in the village of Santa Cecilia, Italy. Maddalena sees no need to open the door to the past and let the emotional baggage and unmended rifts of another life spill out.

But Prima was raised on the lore of the Old Country. And as she sees her parents aging, she hatches the idea to take the entire family back to Italy--hoping to reunite Maddalena with her estranged sister and let her parents see their homeland one last time. It is an idea that threatens to tear the Grasso family apart, until fate deals them some unwelcome surprises, and their trip home becomes a necessary journey.
All This Talk of Love is an incandescent novel about sacrifice and hope, loss and love, myth and memory.

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Jane Hamilton

When Madeline Was Young

Mindy Friddle

Secret Keepers

Laurence Leamer

Madness under the Royal Palms

Erin Lindsay McCabe

I Shall Be near to You

Dave Eggers

The Circle

Robin LaFevers

Mortal Heart

Martin Limón

Buddha's Money

Adrian R. Lewis

Omaha Beach

Günter Grass; Michael Henry Heim (translator)

Peeling the Onion

Paul Theroux

The Family Arsenal

Basil H. Johnston

The Manitous

David Baldacci

The Camel Club

Mary S. Lovell

A Rage to Live

David Traxel

Crusader Nation

Robert Timberg

The Nightingale's Song

Thomas J. Schlereth

Victorian America

Barry Parker

Albert Einstein's Vision

Martin Limón

Jade Lady Burning

Anna Quindlen

Black and Blue

David O. Stewart

George Washington

John Grisham

The Last Juror

John Grisham

The Brethren

Phillip Knightley

The First Casualty

Christopher Castellani

All This Talk of Love

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